Emily Franklin
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A deeply evocative portrait of Isabella Stewart Gardner, a daring visionary who created an inimitable legacy in American art and transformed the city of Boston itself. By the time Isabella Stewart Gardner opened her Italian palazzo-style home as a museum in 1903 to showcase her collection of old masters, antiques, and objects d'art, she was already well-known for scandalizing Boston's polite society. But when Isabella first arrives in Boston in 1861,...
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Feeling out of place in her athletic family, artistic sixteen-year-old Jenny Fitzgerald, whose biological father was a sperm donor, finds a half sister through the Sibling Donor Registry and contacts her, hoping that this will make her feel complete.
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Feeling humiliated and confused when his best friend Tessa rejects his love and reveals a long-held secret, high school senior Luke must decide if he should stand by Tessa when she invites a female date to the prom, sparking a firestorm of controversy in their small Indiana town.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ring in the holiday with eighteen writers who extol, excoriate, and expand our understanding of this most merry of Jewish festivals as they offer up funny, irreverent, and, yes, even nostalgic takes on a holiday that holds a special place in Jewish hearts . . . and stomachs.
Pieces by Jonathan Tropper, Jennifer Gilmore, Steve Almond, Joanna Smith Rakoff, Adam Langer, and others address pressing issues: what is the weight gain associated with eating...
6) Liner notes
Author
Publisher
Downtown Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
How do you share the soundtrack of your life? Just out of grad school, Laney is ready to embark on a new phase of her life. Leaving California to head back east, she's got three thousand miles to reflect on her past before moving ahead to the future. With a box of mixed tapes at the ready, she envisions a trip spent reminiscing about first crushes, high school, family issues, and college loves and losses-her most precious memories. What she doesn't...
Author
Series
Publisher
NAL Jam
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
When she returns to Martha's Vineyard from Los Angeles, Love Bukowski is looking forward to spending the remainder of the summer before her senior year at Hadley Hall reconnecting with her boyfriend Charlie and, with some trepidation, to meeting the mother who left her when she was just a baby.
Author
Publisher
Voice/Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A former chef on yachts and now married to a pediatrician, Franklin wants to pass on her love of food and cooking to her four children, but she also wants the meals to be healthy and varied. Over the course of a year, she introduces her children to new dishes--some exotic, some thrown together with whatever she has in her cabinets. Some meals conjure visions of pleasure while others are utter catastrophes ("This tastes like sand!"). Along the way,...
Author
Publisher
NAL Jam
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
As summer vacation comes to an end, Love Bukoski faces her junior year at Hadley Hall with some trepidation as she tries to cope with her favorite aunt's stuggle with cancer, her father's continuing remoteness, lost friendships, a faded romance, and being responsible for hosting the new exchange student from London.
